Hacking News

Japan’s Prince Hotels Inc., have apologized in a press conference admitting hackers have taken credit card and other information of more than 124,000 people from their website. Read more

In a recent press release New Zealand based fuel company ‘Z Energy’ confirmed that they had been alerted to a major security flaw by a member of the public. The officials disclosed that Z Energy suffered data breach that occurred through a vulnerability in their Z Card Online System. Read more

Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of Live Nation, the world’s largest live entertainment ticketing sales and marketing company, has been hacked, with potentially millions estimated to have had their payment details accessed. Read more

Midwest City officials say they have learned of a security breach of their utility customer service online payment system. Click2Gov online applications are at-risk including payments by cards stored in the Wallet. Read more

PDQ, a fast-casual dining restaurant with several locations in the Triangle, is warning customers about a cyber attack on its computer systems in which hackers were able to access or acquire personal information from the chain’s customers who paid with credit cards. Read more

Multiple Picayune citizens had their debit card information stolen after a card reader system was hacked. While a physical device was not used, it is always important to be vigilant of tampering. Photo by Leah McEwen. Read more

Hours after an exchange breach that saw $31 million stolen from Bithumb, more details have surfaced, but some questions still remain unanswered. Read more

Cyber attacks and data breaches on health care services continue this week whereby a Canadian healthcare services company CarePartners faced a data breach in a recent cyber attack. Read more

A Chinese cyber-espionage unit has reportedly hacked a data centre in a Central Asian nation and altered the website structure to include malicious code. Read more

Hacking for ransom seems to be a constant methodology used by hackers these days. Lately, another company faced just this with a ransom demand. This time, the financial service company Liberty was the victim. Read more